Despite persistent disillusionment with the war in Iraq, a majority of Americans supports taking military action against Iran if that country continues to produce material that can be used to develop nuclear weapons, a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll has found. This shows that 57% of Americans never learn from our mistakes or our history. Why would they want to enforce Gun Control over other countries when they wouldn’t accept it if other countries tried to enforce it on us. ... http://news.moneycentral.msn.com

The US would have to freeze millions of dollars in aid to the Palestinian Authority if a Hamas-led government comes to power and refuses to renounce terror, a senior US diplomat in Jerusalem said Friday. Jacob Walles, the US consul-general in Jerusalem, said the US would not deliver assistance to terror organizations, members of terror organizations or ministries controlled by people belonging to terror organizations. The US, the European Union & Israel all consider Hamas to be a terrorist group. Hamas won an overwhelming victory in Palestinian legislative elections on Wed, capturing 76 of 132 seats. We said we wanted Democracy, well we got it. Now we don’t like it. As for terrorism, who do you think has killed more people Hamas, or the USA? Or is bombing and killing from the relative safety of a B52 or Tank not counted as terror? Remember Governments have killed more people than all terrorists combined. And that’s only counting governments killing their own people, not wars...http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1549250&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

Italy has joined Russia in condemning Ukraine for allegedly stealing Russian gas intended for European consumers. Italy receives Russian gas through pipelines across Ukraine, but is reporting continuing shortfalls in supplies as it endures a cold snap. Industry minister Claudio Scajola said it was "inadmissible" for Ukraine to take gas meant for his country. Ukraine has strongly denied that it is siphoning off Russian gas in transit for Europe. It insists it is adhering to agreements it has previously signed with Russia. Mr Scajola's comments come amid a growing debate in Europe about the continent's dependence on Russian energy. Energy officials from eight central and eastern European countries have called on the EU to help build an integrated gas storage and distribution network to reduce reliance on Russia. ...http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4655914.stm

Authorities arrested five men for setting up fights between dogs and wild boars at an Indian reservation in South Florida. The men, including the founder of a boar-catching dog association, were charged with animal cruelty Thursday after a 14-month investigation into the fights at the Seminole Indian reservation near Okeechobee, authorities said. Undercover Seminole police attended a fight on Oct. 9, 2004, in the backyard of a Seminole Indian's home, authorities said. Twenty-one dogs and at least 14 wild boars were involved, they said. Hog-dog fights typically match a pit bull terrier or bulldog against a wild boar in a pen for 60-second bouts. "It's a little known blood sport that's been around for 25 years," said John Goodwin of The Humane Society. ...http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/01/27/national/main1245804.shtml?CMP=OTC-RSSFeed&source=RSS&attr=U.S._1245804

Iran said the United Nations was being ``manipulated for political purposes'' in its first official observance today of the memory of the Holocaust. The UN's 191 member governments agreed on Nov. 1 to make Jan. 27 the annual ``International Day of Commemoration in Memory of Victims of the Holocaust.'' The decision was taken by consensus in the General Assembly, which means Iran didn't formally object or call for a vote on the resolution. Iran's mission to the UN explained its position on the measure in a note to the president of the General Assembly that was released today. While condemning genocide as a crime against humanity, the statement said ``rendering political judgments on such events and closing the door to any scientific scrutiny'' would impede efforts to prevent future atrocities. ...http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=artEvi2cphpQ&refer=home

The U.S. Army in Iraq has at least twice seized and jailed the wives of suspected insurgents in hopes of "leveraging" their husbands into surrender, U.S. military documents show.In one case, a secretive task force locked up the young mother of a nursing baby, a U.S. intelligence officer reported. In the case of a second detainee, one American colonel suggested to another that they catch her husband by tacking a note to the family's door telling him "to come get his wife." The issue of female detentions in Iraq has taken on a higher profile since kidnappers seized American journalist Jill Carroll on Jan. 7 and threatened to kill her unless all Iraqi women detainees are freed.The U.S. military on Thursday freed five of what it said were 11 women among the 14,000 detainees currently held in the 2 1/2-year-old insurgency. All were accused of "aiding terrorists or planting explosives," but an Iraqi government commission found that evidence was lacking....http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/27/AR2006012700921.html